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Again Aristippus asked him whether he knew of anything beautiful: Yes, many things, he replied.
All like one another?
On the contrary, some are as unlike as they can be.
How then can that which is unlike the beautiful be beautiful?
The reason, of course, is that a beautiful wrestler is unlike a beautiful runner, a shield beautiful for defence is utterly unlike a javelin beautiful for swift and powerful hurling.
Again Aristippus asked him whether he knew of anything beautiful: Yes, many things, he replied.
All like one another?
On the contrary, some are as unlike as they can be.
How then can that which is unlike the beautiful be beautiful?
The reason, of course, is that a beautiful wrestler is unlike a beautiful runner, a shield beautiful for defence is utterly unlike a javelin beautiful for swift and powerful hurling.
Memorabilia. Xenophon. Edgar Carew Marchant (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1923.
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